To avoid legal complications with the U.S. government, WWE added a disclaimer at the start of the video for future airings.

This included spelling out their acronym as "World Wrestling Entertainment",[6] a name they ceased using earlier in the year, in which "WWE" became an orphaned initialism.

[7] The parody of a White House Presidential press conference is intended to publicize WWE's (World Wrestling Entertainment) pay-per-view television event known as Capitol Punishment, which emanates from our Nation's Capital on Sunday, June 19.The promotional poster for the event also featured the President, where Obama is acting as a referee in a confrontation between WWE Superstars John Cena and Rey Mysterio.

R-Truth had been scheduled to compete against The Miz and John Cena in a steel cage match at Extreme Rules for the WWE Championship.

The anonymous Raw general manager announced a championship match between him and Cena at Capitol Punishment on the condition that R-Truth apologize for his actions.

On the June 6 episode of Raw, R-Truth apologized for his actions and retained his title shot against John Cena.

SmackDown General Manager Teddy Long then announced a triple threat number one contender's match between Christian, Henry, and Sheamus, with the winner facing Orton for the title the next week.

The following week, Christian asked to be added to the title match that night, but Long instead made him the special guest referee.

Punk enlisted the aid of The New Nexus to help him win against Rey Mysterio, but The Anonymous Raw General Manager announced they will be banned from ringside at the pay-per-view.

Wade Barrett, Heath Slater, and Justin Gabriel didn't take kindly to Jackson's new aspirations, and promptly beat him down backstage, thus ousting him from the group.

During a six-man tag team match against The Usos and Jackson on SmackDown, Barrett abandoned Slater and Gabriel.

He claimed that he was preserving his own interests since he had a title match at Capitol Punishment against Jackson, but Gabriel and Slater were angered by his actions.

Gabriel and Slater then announced to Barrett that The Corre was no more and he could defend his title on Sunday without their help, effectively dissolving the group.

When Big Show and his partner Kane lost their WWE Tag Team Championships to The New Nexus (David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty), Del Rio mocked them backstage during an interview segment.

After that, guest host Stone Cold Steve Austin announced a match between Big Show and Del Rio at Capitol Punishment.

The United States Championship was also defended at the event, with Dolph Ziggler challenging champion Kofi Kingston.

The actual pay-per-view opened with Kofi Kingston defending the WWE United States Championship against Dolph Ziggler (accompanied by Vickie Guerrero).

Before the match, Mark Henry attacked Big Show and delivered a World's Strongest Slam through a broadcast table.

In the fourth match, Wade Barrett defended the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Ezekiel Jackson.

Cena then threw a distracted R-Truth back into the ring and performed an Attitude Adjustment on him to retain the title.